[Gllug] Frozen machine?

[Kim Hawtin]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 03:27:45PM +0000, Wulf Forrester-Barker wrote:
> Any suggestions on how I can rescue the Linux machine that sits next to
> me? I logged into it via the keyboard (using KDM to go straight into
> KDE) and as soon as it built the desktop, it froze up (no mouse or
> keyboard response).
> 
> However, I can still access it via telnet, and it's still happily
> serving webpages. Since it's obviously still alive, I'm loathe to hit
> the power button. Is there anyway I can poke it via telnet to bring it
> back to life?

you can telnet in, su to root and reboot ... ie "init 6"

or you can try to kill off the processes running KDE and X
(often doesn't work)

yours,

kim
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